Market and regulatory data for the vapour sector in Germany

13th January 2025: Germany: The Greens (centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, has recently published its Government Programme 2025. In it, the party pledges to ban flavours in electronic cigarettes. The Greens currently rank fourth in election polls.
13th January 2025: Germany: The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition, has published its election manifesto ahead of the 23rd February 2025 elections. In it, the party advocates for stricter regulations, advertising restrictions and age limits for disposable e-cigarettes and new types of nicotine products. The party also wants to raise awareness of the products' dangers with educational campaigns and preventive measures in schools. The SPD is currently ranked third in election polls.
20th December 2024: Germany: From 1st January 2025, the tax on e-liquids increases to €0.26 per ml.
16th December 2024: Germany: On 4th December, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published an updated assessment of safrole, sucralose and menthol in e-cigarettes. The BfR said that safrole is classified as a mutagenic substance and therefore banned, sucralose could produce harmful substances, and that some studies with menthol suggest that it facilitates vaping initiation and can increase the attractiveness of products among adolescents. However, the BfR does not explicitly recommend a ban on menthol.
13th December 2024: Germany: The Federal Constitutional Court has not accepted a constitutional complaint directed against the introduction of the tax on e-liquids, in force since 1st July 2022. The plaintiffs argued that consumers could produce the liquids themselves from freely available ingredients without paying the tobacco tax and also that the tax did not adequately reflect the lower health risk of e-cigarettes compared to smoking tobacco. The court considered that the complaint did not meet the formal requirements for a constitutional complaint.
9th December 2024: Germany: On 27th November, Customs seized around 650,000 e-cigarettes, the largest quantity of illegal vapes seized to date in the region of Rhineland. The products didn't respect the maximum permitted tank volume of 2 ml, with 25,000 puffs per product advertised.
2nd December 2024: Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 450,284 vapour products. Only products notified at least six months previously are listed.
2nd December 2024: Germany: Last week, officers from the Berlin-Brandenburg Customs Investigation Office and the Berlin State Police confiscated around 400,000 untaxed disposable e-cigarettes. According to current investigations, tax losses are estimated to be at least €500,000 (between untaxed e-cigarettes and water pipe tobacco).
26th November 2024: Germany: Last week, the Munich Administrative Court ruled that a campaign by Philip Morris International’s German subsidiary constituted indirect advertising for tobacco and related products, press reports. The campaign stressed that cigarette smoke contained over 90 carcinogenic substances and said alternatives such as nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products were less harmful – although addictive and not free from risk. The court deemed the campaign to be illegal.
25th November 2024: Germany: On 22nd November, the Federal Council voted on an amendment to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act to ban disposable e-cigarettes. According to the Council, the original proposal – presented by the Federal Council, which would require retailers of disposable e-cigarettes, including kiosks and fuel stations, to have collection points – did not go far enough due to the constant improper disposal of the product. Parliament will now analyse the Council's amendment proposal.
4th November 2024: Germany: According to a study from Debra – the German Study on Tobacco Use, funded by the Ministry of Health – the consumption of e-cigarettes among people aged 14 to 99 has increased from 1.6% in 2016 to 2.2% in 2023. Disposable e-cigarette use – the most commonly used type of e-cigarette – has increased from 0.1% to 0.8%. The study was conducted with 92,327 participants between 2016 and 2023. It suggests policies such as banning flavours that are particularly attractive to adolescents, imposing higher taxes on disposable e-cigarettes and restricting the sale of products to licensed stores as a measure to limit consumption, especially among younger people.
31st October 2024: Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 445,783 vapour products. Only products notified at least six months previously are listed.

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